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Posted By	Discussion Topic: Yankees Get Drew Henson
SpiderBob	posted on 03-20-2001 @ 5:07 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00	Yankees re-acquire Henson pending physicals -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ESPN.com news services TAMPA, Fla. – The New York Yankees have acquired third baseman Drew Henson and outfielder Michael Coleman from the Cincinnati Reds for minor-league outfielder Wily Pena, contingent on Coleman and Pena passing physicals. Quarterback Drew Henson has one year of eligibility left at Michigan. Sources told ESPN.com's Jayson Stark that there is no firm commitment from Henson to give up his football career -- either at Michigan or, eventually, in the NFL. However, Henson has been privately pushing to be dealt back to the Yankees ever since he was traded to the Reds last July in the Denny Neagle deal. This trade would seem to indicate he will make a more serious attempt to pursue a baseball career. The Yankees, who drafted Henson out of high school in 1998, traded him to the Reds last July as part of a multi-player deal for pitcher Neagle. Yankees officials made the trade days after Henson turned down a reported $3 million offer to drop football and commit full time to baseball. Reds officials indicated this winter they did not believe they could offer Henson enough money to keep him from playing in the NFL. But The Record of Hackensack, N.J., reports that the Yankees would be willing to pay Henson to quit football. According to the newspaper, Henson is believed to be seeking $4 million to $5 million for three or four years. ESPN.com's Bob Klapisch reports the figure may be as high as $15 million over three years. "I don't know what Drew is thinking about," Drew's father, Dan, told The Ann Arbor News today. "The Yankees have not said anything about this to us. We have not talked years or numbers. We've got to find out today. That's all I can tell you. Drew doesn't know more than that." Henson, a likely first-round NFL draft pick in 2002, led Michigan to a 9-3 record last season. He has said he would keep his baseball options open by playing in the minor leagues this summer but would return for his senior year of football. Despite missing the first 3½ games with a broken foot, Henson completed 61.6 percent of his passes for 2,146 yards with 18 touchdowns and only four interceptions last season. Henson, who did not come to spring training, plans to play baseball this summer. He is taking batting practice three days a week and fielding ground balls indoors. Henson, one of the most promising power hitters in the minor leagues, hit .266 with nine homers in 308 at-bats last season, mostly in Double-A. He struggled after the trade, batting only .172 in 16 games for the Reds' Double-A Chattanooga team. Coleman, 25, is out of options and wasn't going to make the Reds. The Yankees needed a backup outfielder who could play center field, so he figures to make the club. The Yankees won't pursue ex-Yankee Ruben Rivera, who was released by the Padres last week. Pena, meanwhile, was a highly sought-after Dominican prospect whom the Yankees had to sign to a major-league contract in 1999, when he was only 17. In his two-year minor-league career, he has 54 more strikeouts (168) than hits (114), while walking only 32 times in 488 at-bats. Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
Calm Your Nut	posted on 03-20-2001 @ 5:28 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Nov. 00	Thats not such a great pick up I don't know if tyhe yankees really need him much. Watching Over "Kwyjibo"
white shorts	posted on 03-20-2001 @ 5:46 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01	if he chooses baseball over football, which i don't think is likely, i like the move because he could be an all-star third baseman. also i like the move because they didn't really give up much to get him back. This message was edited by white shorts on 3-20-01 @ 5:55 PM
atomic punk	posted on 03-20-2001 @ 5:59 PM
Psychopath Registered: Jan. 01	Two words: John Elway Didn't Elway use the Yankees as leverage to facilitate his trade from the Colts, or in contract negotiations with the Broncos? One of Spitfire 421's adopted brats I am a victim of the science age, a child of the storm

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